We’ve Been ZIRPed
December 24, 2012 ·
Magazine, banks, Andy Kessler
Our 19th-Century Curriculum
October 8, 2012 ·
Magazine, Andy Kessler, Education
Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
April 27, 2009 ·
Features, Magazine, Andy Kessler
So how is Fed chairman Ben Bernanke going to get all that toothpaste back into the tube? The Fed has been cranking money out like water over Niagara Falls. The monetary base has increased by a trillion dollars in just the last six months. And he's not done, furiously printing dollars (bank credits,…
The Demise of a Giant Hedge Fund
October 13, 2008 ·
Features, Magazine, Andy Kessler
Before the last of Wall Street gets sold off as day-old fish on Fulton Street or washed into the East River altogether it's worth asking, what is Wall Street these days anyway?
YouTube U.
October 29, 2007 ·
Magazine, Andy Kessler
Without much fanfare, college lectures are being put online, for free. MIT lectures can be downloaded from iTunes University, and you can watch Cal professors pontificate on your computer via YouTube. Is this some new trend? Do colleges feel threatened by Wikipedia? Something funny is going on. No…
Give Me Bandwidth . . .
June 26, 2006 ·
Magazine, Andy Kessler
FINDING IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND the "net neutrality" debate? On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even Microsoft. Net neutrality is their rallying cry. Despite the fact that they are basically schlocky ad salesmen on a grand scale, they're…